One solution may be to only keywords if they have a date other than
the default date.

  -Scott

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Matt Cutts <[email protected]> wrote:
> I didn't know that I had search keywords--I never use them myself. If
> I'd known, I would have deleted the shortcuts long ago. Once I
> realized that this is what caused it, I immediately did
> Wrench->Options->Basics->Manage and deleted the "google" keyword. But
> I never knew that "QuickSearch" meant "somehow there's a hard-coded
> keyword matching this prefix in your search engines dialog box."
>
> I agree with Evan that you don't want to ask more questions when
> importing bookmarks, but personally I would prefer not to import these
> QuickSearch phrases by default. I think only a tiny fraction of power
> users use these phrases (I don't).
> Matt
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Scott Violet <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm curious. Where did you expect to see bookmark keywords? Where did
>> you look first?
>>
>>  -Scott
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Evan Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Both Matt Cutts and Matt my roommate have recently been caught by
>>> useless bookmark keywords.
>>> Matt_1 wrote, in a list of things he didn't like about Chrome, 'If I
>>> start typing "Google webmaster blog" into the Omnibox, it offers to
>>> search Google for "webmaster blog"'.
>>> Matt_2 asked me how timeanddate.com managed to grab all queries
>>> starting with "time", thinking it was a vulnerability of some sort.
>>>
>>> I believe both of these were caused by importing search keywords from
>>> Firefox.  In at least the latter case, Matt_2 was unaware that the
>>> "time" keyword even existed on his Firefox (I think it might have been
>>> part how Firefox was installed on his computer?).
>>>
>>> In both cases, the UI for managing these keywords was hidden enough
>>> that they couldn't find it.  (I couldn't even find it myself when
>>> Matt_2 asked me about it... the button is labeled "searches" or
>>> something, which is not at all what I as looking for.  I knew to
>>> right-click on the omnibox but that isn't at all obvious.)
>>>
>>> So, for discussion:
>>> 1) is importing keywords harmful?  (I am pretty certain "ask the user
>>> more questions when importing" *is* harmful.)
>>> 2) how can we surface the fact that you can edit those keywords?
>>>
>>> >>>
>>>
>>
>

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